DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF THE ERLANG AND ELIXIR ECOSYSTEM

Join the only North American conference to cover all of the BEAM languages, including Erlang and Elixir.

Created for developers, by developers, Code BEAM SF is dedicated to bringing the best minds in the Erlang and Elixir communities together to SHARE. LEARN. INSPIRE. over two days.

Learn from 50+ cutting-edge talks and our in-depth training program, how BEAM languages are revolutionising areas like IoT, Blockchain, Fintech, Security, Machine Learning and more!

See you in San Francisco!

CODE BEAM SF 2020

DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF THE ERLANG ECOSYSTEM

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Code BEAM SF

Code BEAM SF is the only conference in North America to bring all the languages that run on the BEAM together, including Erlang and Elixir.

Learn from 50+ cutting-edge talks and our in-depth training program, how BEAM languages are revolutionising areas like IoT, Blockchain, Fintech, Security, Machine Learning and more.

As of 2018, Code BEAM SF, formerly known as Erlang & Elixir Factory San Francisco, joined the Code Sync family of tech conferences.

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videos

Introducing the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation /// José Valim , Miriam Pena , Fred Hebert , Francesco Cesarini and Peer Stritzinger

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Announcing Broadway /// José Valim

Are programmers heading towards another bursting bubble? /// Tyler Bettilyon

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Designing an engineering org for SaaS and on-prem delivery models /// Renee Orser

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Partisan: testable, high performance, large scale distributed Erlang /// Christopher Meiklejohn

#Code BEAM SF 2019

The art of the live upgrade - lessons from 10 years of evolving a live system /// Richard Carlsson

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Refactoring Elixir for maintainability /// David Lucia

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Containers & Orchestration: The Elixir way /// Veronica Lopez

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Clixir - mixing C and Elixir code /// Cees de Groot

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Membrane framework - bringing BEAM into world of multimedia and streaming /// Marcin Lewandowski

#Code BEAM SF 2019

ZenMonitor: Scaling Distributed Monitoring at Discord /// Matthew Nowack

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Go vs Elixir: A concurrency comparison /// Anna Neyzberg and Hannah Howard

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Process signals in OTP 21 /// Lukas Larsson

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Server-side network protocol /// Marc Sugiyama

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Fantastic Voyage III: Destination BEAM /// Brian Troutwine

#Code BEAM SF 2019

FIPS 140-2 in BEAM apps /// Drew Varner

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Pretty state machine /// Jeff Smith

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Chemanalysis: Dialyzing Elixir /// Sean Cribbs

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Erlang logging for the 21st OTP /// Andrew Thompson

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Update: Elixir core dev team - March 2019 /// James Fish

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Applied AI research with StarCraft, Torch and the BEAM /// Barbara Chassoul and Jean Chassoul

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Properties for all

Article by Code Sync Team

In this talk, we'll go over property testing and model checking. Using a simple cache library as an example, and the propcheck library to briefly cover the uses of property checking and when to use them versus model checking.

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Monitoring environment stability with Erlang /// Jay Nelson

#Code BEAM SF 2019

The evolution of a language /// Andrea Leopardi

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Building a credit card issuer with Elixir /// Jonathan Lima

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Create a decentralized database with ExAbci and Tendermint /// Tian Chen

#Code BEAM SF 2019

How WhatsApp moved 1.5B users across data centers /// Igors Istocniks

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Erlang Distribution via UDP combined with Ethernet TSN /// Peer Stritzinger

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Building a highly scalable service that survived a Super Bowl /// Keith Elder

#Code BEAM SF 2019

Using Distillery: understanding OTP releases /// Ken Cross

#Code BEAM SF 2019

OTP behaviours and how to behave around them /// Brujo Benavides

#Code BEAM SF 2019

ALL MEDIA

Themes

Introduction to Erlang and Elixir

New to Erlang and/or Elixir? Interested, but don't know quite where to dig in? We've all been there! In this track, you will learn from other's experience, get a sense of the lay of the software ecosystem, get help from the community and contribute back for everyone's benefit.

Tools

Erlang and Elixir's popularity is growing but it's not always clear what off-the-shelf software is useful in production quality systems. In this track you will learn what existing production systems' maintainers are using to monitor and test their systems. This track will include the war stories and experience reports of novice and expert users alike.

Case
Studies

Every new domain that Erlang and Elixir push into brings a new class of problems and a new class of solutions. In this track, we'll learn from other's experience, where things have been peachy and where they haven't been so much. We'll all walk away with a more clear idea of how to build highly reliable software.

The
BEAM

Learn from the leading experts and Erlang committers about new language constructs, VM implementations, and powerful libraries which form the Erlang eco-system. You will learn how many of its features work and how to best use them to write fast and efficient code.

Frameworks

In this track, you will learn from the leading experts and committers about new and leading frameworks such as (but not limited to) Phoenix, MongooseIM, Nerves and RabbitMQ. You will find out how these frameworks work, how to best use them and where not to use them.

Distribution, concurrency, multicore, & functional

Scaling vertically by adding more powerful hardware is a thing of the past. We scaled horizontally, by adding more commodity hardware. With mega-core architectures, we have the choice of adding more hardware, more cores, or both. Erlang style concurrency puts us ahead of the game when it comes to scaling with both approaches.

Our speakers

José Valim

Creator of the Elixir programming language, Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit

Keynote:

Announcing Broadway

01 Mar / 09.05 / OK BEAMer

Tyler Bettilyon

Writer, educator, engineer, and founder of Teb's Lab

Keynote:

Are programmers heading towards another bursting bubble?

01 Mar / 17.05 / OK BEAMer

Renee Orser

VP of Engineering at NS1

Keynote:

Designing an engineering org for SaaS and on-prem delivery models

28 Feb / 09.15 / OK BEAMer

Miriam Pena

Voted one of the women to watch in tech by Women 2.0

Introducing the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

28 Feb / 17.45 / OK BEAMer

BEAM Extreme; Don't try this at home!

01 Mar / 10.35 / OK BEAMer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Jacqueline Manzi

Engineering Manager and seasoned Full Stack software engineer at Mux

Using OTP: presence to power real-time analytics

01 Mar / 14.30 / BEAMenial

#Case studies

Fred Hebert

Erlang, Tools, and Systems (Postmates)

Introducing the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

28 Feb / 17.45 / OK BEAMer

Operable Erlang and Elixir

28 Feb / 14.40 / OK BEAMer

#The BEAM

Hannah Howard

Programmer and life long iconoclast

Go vs Elixir: A concurrency comparison

01 Mar / 16.15 / OK BEAMer

#Distribution and concurrency

Anna Neyzberg

Co-founder of ElixirBridge

Go vs Elixir: A concurrency comparison

01 Mar / 16.15 / OK BEAMer

#Distribution and concurrency

Marc Sugiyama

Experienced Erlang engineer, consultant, and trainer

Server-side network protocol

28 Feb / 16.25 / BEAMenial

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Nuwan Wijerathne

Tech-Lead at Global Wavenet

Building high performance modularization architecture in short messaging systems

01 Mar / 10.35 / BEAMenial

#Case studies

Barbara Chassoul

Software engineer at Peer Stritzinger GmbH

Applied AI research with StarCraft, Torch and the BEAM

28 Feb / 12.25 / OK BEAMer

#The BEAM

Jean Chassoul

Software designer

Applied AI research with StarCraft, Torch and the BEAM

28 Feb / 12.25 / OK BEAMer

#The BEAM

Veronica Lopez

Member of the Kubernetes Core Team

Containers & orchestration: The Elixir way

01 Mar / 12.15 / OK BEAMer

#Distribution and concurrency

Brujo Benavides

🧙‍♂️ Oxbow Code Killer 🔥

OTP behaviours and how to behave around them

28 Feb / 11.35 / OK BEAMer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Igors Istocniks

Software engineering manager at WhatsApp

How WhatsApp moved 1.5B users across data centres

01 Mar / 11.25 / OK BEAMer

#Case studies

Lukas Larsson

Erlang VM core committer

Process signals in OTP 21

28 Feb / 16.25 / OK BEAMer

#The BEAM

Update: OTP team

01 Mar / 09.50 / OK BEAMer

#Erlang

Richard Carlsson

Author of Eunit and other tools, co-author of Erlang and OTP in Action

The art of the live upgrade - lessons from 10 years of evolving a live system

28 Feb / 10.45 / Gen X

#The BEAM

James Aimonetti

Lead developer at 2600Hz

Property based testing in Kazoo

28 Feb / 17.15 / OK BEAMer

#Frameworks

Stavros Aronis

Developer & Trainer at Erlang Solutions

Modeling and verifying distributed applications with Concuerror

01 Mar / 13.40 / OK BEAMer

#Tools

Riccardo Binetti

Astarte core team member

Beyond the MQTT broker

28 Feb / 10.45 / BEAMenial

#Frameworks

Robert Carbone

Visualizing the BEAM will Change the World

Composing in style: an introduction to wxErlang's StyledTextCtrl

28 Feb / 15.30 / Gen X

#Frameworks

Tian Chen

VPE, Technical Writer, Elixir Enthusiast

Create a decentralized database with ExAbci and Tendermint

28 Feb / 16.25 / Gen X

#Frameworks

Benoit Chesneau

Edge computing artisan

Barrel, keep your data in sync in your Erlang application

01 Mar / 12.15 / BEAMenial

#Case studies

Sean Cribbs

Experienced tech leader and long-time BEAMer

Chemanalysis: Dialyzing Elixir

01 Mar / 14.30 / Gen X

#Tools

Ken Cross

Software Engineer at HelloSign

Using Distillery: understanding OTP releases

01 Mar / 16.15 / Gen X

#Tools

Adrian Cruz

Search, discovery and personalization software engineer

Getting results: finding what we need with Elixir

28 Feb / 13.50 / BEAMenial

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Cees de Groot

Principal engineer at PagerDuty, Inc.

Clixir - mixing C and Elixir code

01 Mar / 15.20 / Gen X

#Tools

Keith Elder

Technology evangelist, technologist, software engineer, speaker, trainer, and storyteller

Building a highly scalable service that survived a Super Bowl

01 Mar / 11.25 / BEAMenial

#Case studies

Andrea Leopardi

Elixir core team member, developer advocate, engineer at Apple

The evolution of a language

28 Feb / 10.45 / OK BEAMer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Marcin Lewandowski

Partner at Software Mansion

Membrane framework - bringing BEAM into world of multimedia and streaming

28 Feb / 13.50 / Gen X

#Frameworks

Maxim Fedorov

Performance & scalability engineer

Mid-air airplane repair: troubleshooting at WhatsApp

28 Feb / 13.50 / OK BEAMer

#The BEAM

Jonathan Lima

Software developer at Brex

Building a credit card issuer with Elixir

01 Mar / 16.15 / BEAMenial

#Case studies

James Fish

Software Engineer (Pinterest)

Update: Elixir core dev team

28 Feb / 10.00 / OK BEAMer

#Elixir

David Lucia

Using Elixir to turn every moment of a sporting event into a betting opportunity

Refactoring Elixir for maintainability

28 Feb / 17.15 / BEAMenial

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Jay Nelson

Proselytizes "the Erlang way" for apps in telecoms, electronic payments, secure texting, and ad delivery

Monitoring environment stability with Erlang

28 Feb / 12.25 / Gen X

#Frameworks

Rodrigo Nonose

Curiosity-driven developer experienced in multiple languages

Microservices with Elixir

28 Feb / 15.30 / BEAMenial

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Matthew Nowack

Senior backend engineer at Discord

ZenMonitor: scaling distributed monitoring at Discord

01 Mar / 10.35 / Gen X

#Tools

Connor Rigby

Embedded systems engineer at Farmbot, Inc

Functional farming with Nerves

28 Feb / 12.25 / BEAMenial

#Case studies

Jeff Smith

Software engineer at Enbala

Pretty state machine

28 Feb / 11.35 / Gen X

#The BEAM

Peer Stritzinger

GRiSP Inventor, Distributed Computing in IoT and everywhere

Introducing the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

28 Feb / 17.45 / OK BEAMer

Erlang Distribution via UDP combined with Ethernet TSN

01 Mar / 14.30 / OK BEAMer

Boshan Sun

Software engineer at Amazon, learned Erlang from Joe Armstrong

Understanding Erlang kernel

28 Feb / 14.40 / Gen X

#The BEAM

Andrew Thompson

Author of Lager and Gen_smtp, Rebar and Riak Contributor

Erlang logging for the 21st OTP

01 Mar / 11.25 / Gen X

#Tools

Brian Troutwine

Low-level systems engineer on the Dropbox Performance team. Has thoughts about spacecraft.

Fantastic voyage III: Destination BEAM

28 Feb / 15.30 / OK BEAMer

#Distribution and concurrency

Drew Varner

GIAC exploit researcher & advanced penetration tester

FIPS 140-2 in BEAM apps

01 Mar / 15.20 / BEAMenial

#Tools

Greg Woodward, Ph.D.

CTO & VP Engineering at Sparta Science

A distributed Elixir / Phoenix application for force scanning: How we built it and what we've learned

01 Mar / 13.40 / BEAMenial

#Case studies

Andrei Soroker

Director of Product at 8x8

The art of the BEAM: How to replace the JVM and not get fired

28 Feb / 14.40 / BEAMenial

#Distribution and concurrency

Zurab Davitiani

Feature flagging enthusiast, wrote an Erlang/Elixir SDK client for LaunchDarkly

Feature flagging in Erlang using LaunchDarkly

28 Feb / 17.15 / Gen X

#The BEAM

Nicholas Adams

Director of global support operations at T.I Tokyo

Riak's Rebirth

28 Feb / 11.35 / BEAMenial

#Distribution and concurrency

Eric Saxby

Senior software engineer at Geometer LLC

Casting against type(s)

01 Mar / 15.20 / OK BEAMer

#Frameworks

Christopher Meiklejohn

Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D student

Partisan: testable, high performance, large scale distributed Erlang

01 Mar / 13.40 / Gen X

Schedule

Day 1 - 28 Feb 2019

Time	OK BEAMer	Gen X	BEAMenial
08.00 - 09.00	REGISTRATION
09.00 - 09.15	WELCOME
09.15 - 10.00	Renee Orser Keynote: OK BEAMer Designing an engineering org for SaaS and on-prem delivery models
10.00 - 10.15	James Fish OK BEAMer Update: Elixir core dev team Beginner #Elixir
10.15 - 10.45	BREAK
10.45 - 11.30	Andrea Leopardi OK BEAMer The evolution of a language Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Richard Carlsson Gen X The art of the live upgrade - lessons from 10 years of evolving a live system Advanced #The BEAM	Riccardo Binetti BEAMenial Beyond the MQTT broker Intermediate #Frameworks
11.35 - 12.20	Brujo Benavides OK BEAMer OTP behaviours and how to behave around them Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Jeff Smith Gen X Pretty state machine Intermediate #The BEAM	Nicholas Adams BEAMenial Riak's Rebirth Intermediate #Distribution and concurrency
12.25 - 12.50	Barbara Chassoul and Jean Chassoul OK BEAMer Applied AI research with StarCraft, Torch and the BEAM Intermediate #The BEAM	Jay Nelson Gen X Monitoring environment stability with Erlang Intermediate #Frameworks	Connor Rigby BEAMenial Functional farming with Nerves Beginner #Case studies
12.50 - 13.50	LUNCH
13.50 - 14.35	Maxim Fedorov OK BEAMer Mid-air airplane repair: troubleshooting at WhatsApp Intermediate #The BEAM	Marcin Lewandowski Gen X Membrane framework - bringing BEAM into world of multimedia and streaming Advanced #Frameworks	Adrian Cruz BEAMenial Getting results: finding what we need with Elixir Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
14.40 - 15.25	Fred Hebert OK BEAMer Operable Erlang and Elixir Intermediate #The BEAM	Boshan Sun Gen X Understanding Erlang kernel Intermediate #The BEAM	Andrei Soroker BEAMenial The art of the BEAM: How to replace the JVM and not get fired #Distribution and concurrency
15.30 - 15.55	Brian Troutwine OK BEAMer Fantastic voyage III: Destination BEAM Advanced #Distribution and concurrency	Robert Carbone Gen X Composing in style: an introduction to wxErlang's StyledTextCtrl Beginner #Frameworks	Rodrigo Nonose BEAMenial Microservices with Elixir Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
15.55 - 16.25	BREAK
16.25 - 17.10	Lukas Larsson OK BEAMer Process signals in OTP 21 Intermediate #The BEAM	Tian Chen Gen X Create a decentralized database with ExAbci and Tendermint Intermediate #Frameworks	Marc Sugiyama BEAMenial Server-side network protocol Intermediate #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
17.15 - 17.40	James Aimonetti OK BEAMer Property based testing in Kazoo Intermediate #Frameworks	Zurab Davitiani Gen X Feature flagging in Erlang using LaunchDarkly Intermediate #The BEAM	David Lucia BEAMenial Refactoring Elixir for maintainability Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
17.45 - 18.30	José Valim , Miriam Pena , Fred Hebert , Francesco Cesarini and Peer Stritzinger OK BEAMer Introducing the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
18.30 - 22.00	CONFERENCE PARTY

Day 2 - 01 Mar 2019

Time	OK BEAMer	Gen X	BEAMenial
09.00 - 09.05	WELCOME
09.05 - 09.50	José Valim Keynote: OK BEAMer Announcing Broadway
09.50 - 10.05	Lukas Larsson OK BEAMer Update: OTP team Lukas will give updates on what the OTP team has done in the last few months, what are the projects they're working on, and what's going on on the research side. Beginner #Erlang
10.05 - 10.35	BREAK
10.35 - 11.20	Miriam Pena OK BEAMer BEAM Extreme; Don't try this at home! Intermediate #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Matthew Nowack Gen X ZenMonitor: scaling distributed monitoring at Discord Intermediate #Tools	Nuwan Wijerathne BEAMenial Building high performance modularization architecture in short messaging systems Intermediate #Case studies
11.25 - 12.10	Igors Istocniks OK BEAMer How WhatsApp moved 1.5B users across data centres Advanced #Case studies	Andrew Thompson Gen X Erlang logging for the 21st OTP Intermediate #Tools	Keith Elder BEAMenial Building a highly scalable service that survived a Super Bowl Beginner #Case studies
12.15 - 12.40	Veronica Lopez OK BEAMer Containers & orchestration: The Elixir way #Distribution and concurrency	Code Sync Team Gen X Properties for all Intermediate #Frameworks	Benoit Chesneau BEAMenial Barrel, keep your data in sync in your Erlang application Intermediate #Case studies
12.40 - 13.40	LUNCH
13.40 - 14.25	Stavros Aronis OK BEAMer Modeling and verifying distributed applications with Concuerror Intermediate #Tools	Christopher Meiklejohn Gen X Partisan: testable, high performance, large scale distributed Erlang	Greg Woodward, Ph.D. BEAMenial A distributed Elixir / Phoenix application for force scanning: How we built it and what we've learned Intermediate #Case studies
14.30 - 15.15	Peer Stritzinger OK BEAMer Erlang Distribution via UDP combined with Ethernet TSN	Sean Cribbs Gen X Chemanalysis: Dialyzing Elixir No one wants to ship bugs in a production system, especially embarrassing ones! Dialyzer is a post-compilation type-checker that has found more bugs in my code than I can count, saving me a lot of time and frustration. This talk will discuss briefly what Dialyzer is, how to use it in Elixir projects, and go in-depth on three bugs it helped me find in the Elixir compiler and standard library. #Tools	Jacqueline Manzi BEAMenial Using OTP: presence to power real-time analytics Intermediate #Case studies
15.20 - 15.45	Eric Saxby OK BEAMer Casting against type(s) Intermediate #Frameworks	Cees de Groot Gen X Clixir - mixing C and Elixir code Taking metaprogramming to the max, Clixir allows you to mix a subset of C and Elixir code in single source files and end up with transparent and safe execution of your embedded C code. As a demonstration, Uderzo, an OpenGL based graphics system targeted towards simple UIs for Nerves-style systems, will be explained. Intermediate #Tools	Drew Varner BEAMenial FIPS 140-2 in BEAM apps Intermediate #Tools
15.45 - 16.15	BREAK
16.15 - 17.00	Anna Neyzberg and Hannah Howard OK BEAMer Go vs Elixir: A concurrency comparison Intermediate #Distribution and concurrency	Ken Cross Gen X Using Distillery: understanding OTP releases Intermediate #Tools	Jonathan Lima BEAMenial Building a credit card issuer with Elixir Intermediate #Case studies
17.05 - 17.50	Tyler Bettilyon Keynote: OK BEAMer Are programmers heading towards another bursting bubble?
17.50 - 18.00	CLOSING NOTES
18.00 - 19.00	LEAVING DRINKS

I'm super excited to be attending Code BEAM SF for the first time this year! I really do want to become more involved with the Erlang and Elixir communities, and I hope the event serves as a way for me to find projects that interest me, opportunities to contribute, and people I would like to get to know and work with in the future.